Overview
The Sustainability Risk Tool Dashboard is an open-access database designed for financial institutions to compare and understand sustainability risk tools. It offers structured data on more than 100 tools, including features, metrics, methodologies, assumptions and common use cases. Finance professionals may use it to support risk analysis and tool selection.
Organisation behind the tool
The Dashboard is developed and maintained by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Risk Centre, as part of its Risk Assessment and Tools Working Group. It is updated quarterly and integrates insights from related UNEP FI climate risk publications.
What the tool does
- Provides a comprehensive overview of environmental and social risk assessment tools.
- Details tool features, underlying metrics and methodologies.
- Outlines assumptions used by each tool and typical use cases.
- Covers expanded themes beyond climate, including nature, pollution and social risks.
- Helps users compare tools in a structured, searchable format.
Target audience
Primary users are banks, insurers and investors involved in sustainability risk assessment. Other audiences include risk analysts, sustainability teams, researchers and policymakers interested in comparative tool data.
Relevance to finance professionals
- Risk assessment – Supports evaluation of tools for physical, transition and broader sustainability risk exposures.
- ESG analysis – Provides metrics and methodologies relevant to environmental and social risk reporting.
- Market insights – Enables comparison of tools relevant to evolving sustainability challenges across sectors.
- Investment context – Assists in identifying tools that inform long-term sustainability risk and opportunity assessment.
